clrmamepro [English] > clrmame Discussion

Lesminni ROM Auditor

(1/2) > >>

haroldion:
Okay well here goes, I am a Mac user and there isn't really a lot as far as checking ones ROMs go on the Mac. There is ClrMAMEPro on the PC sure but not for Mac. However there has just been a new release of Lesminni, which I believe to be similar in working to ClrMAMEPro: http://github.com/MatthewCallis/Lesminni/tree/master

The problem is I don't know how ClRMAMEPro works, I actually don't even get it, what its supposed to do. I have an idea of what I want though: basically that is for a program to use the dats provided by dat-o-matic to proof a downloaded rom against the 'clean' list, thus verifying it. This then would guarantee that the game you play on your emulator was the exact same one you played on your console - no hacks, no flaws.

So, if anybody has access to a Mac, can they please try out Lesminni to see if it does actually do this. Because I can't figure it out at all, you have read what I want to do (and I think its important), but the whole scene is too complicated for me.

And yes I have tried, tried a lot and read all the tutorials.

Thanks for your help.

Roman:
clrmamepro works fine on a Mac using Crossover.

What clrmamepro does, well, it audits romsets. It compares the content of your harddisk/whatever with the definitions of the romsets in a datfile or an emulator binary.

Dat-O-Matic came about 10 years after clrmame was born and is only one little source of datfiles.

haroldion:
Thanks for the reply but I hate look of CLrMAMEPro, its just ugly and hy shouldn't Mac have its own software I think. Plus its so hard to understand and use. I think that Mac should have its own solution and Lesminni could be it, well there isn't much else.

I thought Dat-o-matic was the source for the most up to date dat files, they have the most recent activity I think. Anyway, seem as though I can't even figure out (even with the help guides) how to use ClrMAMEPro then I was hoping somebody might take a look at Lesminni, if they have access to a Mac, and try and get it working. It sounds like it should be simple I know..

Thanks.

Roman:
clrmamepro is simple. There are docs, there are tutorials.

Basically a simple 3 step is all you need to do: profiler -> load a datfile, settings -> setup rompaths, scanner -> hit scan. That's it.

All you have to do is reading and of course you need some knowledge about rom auditing and basic terms. And I think the latter is missing on your side (no offense though).
It's clrmame *PRO*. If you don't like it, don't use it. If you don't want to spend a minimum time in learning how to use it, tough luck, try to find something else which suits you.

I doubt that your mentioned tool is as powerful as cmpro. Coming from its website:

- Display the ROMs internal info
- Calculate ROM Checksum
- Rename ROMs based on internal info or from a ClrMame DAT *Disabled*
- Export ROM list in ClrMame Pro Format
- Display the ROMs internal info

wow...what a feature list....but don't get me wrong... I fully respect what the author does. I appreciate and will also support any auditing tools author...but the upper list is maybe 1% of what cmpro does.

haroldion:
Okay, I spent the whole day today (again) looking at Clrmamepro and trying to figure it out. I managed to install it using Wine, which went well and even managed to make a video tutorial of that, however the familiar frustrations crept in when using Clrmamepro ..so I made a video of it. I sound a bit grumpy I know, but you would if the issue persisted.

video: http://drop.io/kkwvjpv#

Basically you can now see where I'm coming from, I am now hoping somebody can create a video to show how this thing is actually supposed to work, in practice. The only video help I have ever seen is in Spanish/Portugese on Youtube, aside from that I really have tried using the online guides.

My problem as you know is a home based console one but SDLMess just looks naff and the devs on it say that its not got an audit option. So I know that Clrmamepro is not going to help me with console ROMs (or that's what I think) but tried Arcade games just to see it work. As you can see I failed miserably, any help?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page